It happens, doesn’t it? All excited for a road trip and bang there goes a tire. Settle down for a cozy movie night, the wifi has a speed of 5. Open the pool for the season, pool supplies are out of stock, you get what I mean, right? I call this unexpected Sh*T, one of my clients refers to this kind of thing as ” the tyranny of life” and another client calls it “life Cr*P”!
Whatever you call it, we all have it. I find that comforting somehow, do you? I mean one of my clients and I were struggling this week with the very same Internet company for the bad service, like being on hold for two hours, so we know it happens to all of us.
I don’t know about you but I NEVER write down on my to-do lists, Deal with ” unexpected sh*t”, do you? I write down all the things I think I am going to do that day. For example, I am going away on a little trip, my list says pack clothes, call cottage, pack for Ruffus, gas up the car, that sort of thing. I do not write down, deal with flat tires or get stuck in construction traffic, do you?
My clients write down things like, get the pool supplies and then the pool supplies are out of stock and it is annoying. They don’t write down, try to get pool supplies. My clients write down what they are planning to do in a day and not suddenly take the dog to the vet.
The thing is we all know that this kind of thing happens, but we don’t plan for it, at least many of us don’t so, each time it happens we are surprised and annoyed or frustrated.
I am wondering about this and I am going to try including both in my to-do list and psyche space for this unexpected sh*t and see if by acknowledging it and accommodating for it, it will loosen its power and ability to annoy me.
I invite you to do something similar.
As always I hope this is helpful.
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